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CONTACT

Bop Tart Records is owned and operated by Lindsey Baker who can be contacted by e-mail or via mail at:

Bop Tart Records
903 Union St. # 512
Seattle, WA 98101

BIO

Bop Tart records is a label that I started in the fall of 2002 while living in Huntington, West Virginia. Before Bop Tart, I ran a label called Actiondriver Records with Joseph Clagg. My only project on Actiondriver was Your Blotted Corpse Has Washed Ashore, a CD by Puerto Muerto. Joseph moved to Toledo, Ohio so we decided to part ways.

In the summer of 2002, to coincide with release of The Turn-on’s Love Ruined Us EP, our first release, Bop Tart Records moved its headquarters to Seattle, WA. Love Ruined Us reached #42 on the CMJ core top 50 charts for college radio, and received too much praise to mention from press outlets.

Bop Tart’s first full length release, Dame Darcy’s Greatest Hits, is a lo-fi collection of the best of Dame Darcy’s Victorian bluegrass music. Dame Darcy and I worked for five years compiling the CD, a project that was started on when I was with Actiondriver Records. The CD spans from music Dame Darcy recorded at age ten, and goes all the way to what she’s working on now.

In 2003, The Lights completed their first full length debut for Bop Tart Records titled ‘’Beautiful Bird’. The CD was recorded by Erik Blood (producer and member of The Turn-ons.) This will be our third release, and will come out in this summer.

Bop Tart Records’ goal is to put out music by artists that we love, and get that music to the people that need to hear it. We strive to be a label that people can trust will always put out great music. We represent music that you will hear a lot about later, but heard here first, cliché, but in our case true.

DEMO SUBMISSIONS

Please be aware that we most likely won’t be able to put out your band’s CD, 45’, or whatever. We’re an independent label, and we have a very limited budget. We get a lot of demos, and sadly enough, sometimes we’re not even able to put out the ones we really like. That being said, we always like to hear great music. If you think your music would fit Bop Tart Records please send your demo to our mailing address.

GALLERY SUBMISSIONS

To contribute to to the Bop Tart gallery please send us an example of your work to our gallery address.

PRESS

For high resolution press photos of our bands please visit our press photos page. Or if your with the press and would like to be on our press mailing list please email us at pressboptart@boptart.com.

MAILING LIST

Bop Tart maintains an announcement only mailing list by e-mail which we will notify you about Bop Tart releases, events, and other news. We also have a mailing list that we use to mail out postcards when something particularly noteworthy occurs. Your information will used by Bop Tart Records, and Bop Tart only, for these purposes.

To sign up for the e-mail list make sure a valid e-mail address is entered on the e-mail line, and to be added to the mailing list for other mailings fill out the name and address lines. Sign up for the Bop Tart Records mailing lists.